Florin Andrei wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: >> >> JACKPOT! Your "wild guess" was *dead* on! Google is installing into >> /opt I'd forgotten that I have /opt as FAT32, to safely move files >> between NTFS and ext3. This is a dual boot, WinXP and CentOS 5 box. > > Use something else for that, not /opt. Just make up some directory > name, unmount /opt, re-mount the FAT32 partition under the new > directory, and then leave /opt alone. > indeed. in some filename/directory standard or another who's name escapes me, /opt is the standard place to install non-core distribution software packages ... linux people often use /usr/local for this, but /usr/local is intended for site specific stuff, which software packages really aren't.